AT&T Reinvents the Steering Wheel

Haptics is the use of tactile sensations for creating computer input and output. Your wiimote is an expletive as is your iPad touch screen. While those are input devices, this article describes an output device that uses haptics. One must wonder what we will invent for such devices in the classroom.

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"AT&T Reinvents the Steering Wheel"
Vibrating wheel tells you to when to turn—and is less distracting than visual and auditory cues, researchers say.

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